Antelope (ship)
Numerous ships have sailed under the name Antelope. Notable ones include:
- Antelope, launched in 1546, helped defeat the Spanish Armada
- Antelope, a 56-gun "great frigate" launched in 1651 for the Commonwealth of England, but wrecked in 1652
- Antelope, a packet ship launched in 1780, most famous for a desperate single-ship action in 1793 when she captured a much larger French privateer
- Antelope, a packet ship built for the British East India Company (EIC) in 1781 that made one voyage that ended when she was wrecked in 1783 off Ulong, and that resulted in the first sustained European contact with Palau
- Antelope, launched in 1802, became a slave ship whose capture in 1820 gave rise to a notable legal case
- Antelope of Boston was a clipper ship launched in 1851 and wrecked in 1858
- Antelope was a steamboat that operated on the southern Oregon coast from 1886 to about 1908
- Empire Antelope was built as Ophis in 1919, renamed Empire Antelope in 1941, and sunk in November 1942
- HMS Antelope, one of 10 vessels that have served the Royal Navy
- USS Antelope, one of three vessels that have served the United States Navy
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